Trump, Clinton Voters Divided in Their Main Source for Election News (Trumpeteers: 40% Fox)

[Bill USA]

Trump, Clinton Voters Divided in Their Main Source for Election News
http://www.journalism.org/2017/01/18/trump-clinton-voters-divided-in-their-main-source-for-election-news/

Fox News was the main source for 40% of Trump voters

By Jeffrey Gottfried, Michael Barthel and Amy Mitchell


In the coming days, Americans will follow a single event across a variety of media channels: the inauguration of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States. If the public’s media habits during the campaign are any indicator, it is likely that Trump and Hillary Clinton voters will be learning about the inauguration from very different media outlets. According to a new Pew Research Center survey, Americans who say they voted for Trump in the general election relied heavily on Fox News as their main source of election news leading up to the 2016 election, whereas Clinton voters named an array of different sources, with no one source named by more than one-in-five of her supporters. The survey was conducted Nov. 29-Dec. 12, 2016, among 4,183 adults who are members of Pew Research Center’s nationally representative American Trends Panel.



When voters were asked to write in their “main source” for election news, four-in-ten Trump voters named Fox News.1 The next most-common main source among Trump voters, CNN, was named by only 8% of his voters.

Clinton voters, however, did not coalesce around any one source. CNN was named more than any other, but at 18% had nowhere near the dominance that Fox News had among Trump voters. Instead, the choices of Clinton voters were more spread out. MSNBC, Facebook, local television news, NPR, ABC, The New York Times and CBS were all named by between 5% and 9% of her voters.

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Among Democrats, those who supported Clinton in primaries had somewhat different main sources than those who backed other candidates


The study also suggests that Democrats who backed Bernie Sanders or another Democratic candidate in the primaries prioritized, to some extent, different types of news media than those who supported Clinton – even once the general election had begun. There were fewer differences between those who did and did not support Trump in the Republican primaries.

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Democrats must address the problem of getting legitimate, fact based news coverage to more people. M$M is really just a mouthpiece for the GOP. We need something to counter FOX and to report on the Big Lies Fox creates andor perpetuates.

[appleannie1943]

1. If I hear or read something, I tend to do research on it. I don't rely on any one source.

[The Wizard]

2. 49% admit to watching Pox

Most of them won't admit to it because they know it's a 24 / 7 Republican campaign ad, but is reinforces their white supremacy and hatred.